Offbeat photos of the week

September 7, 2012

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A young pupil with his father hands a school bag to a black sheep of Ouessant standing with its mother and named after French Education Minister Vincent Peillon as "Vincent P.", and symbolically registered as the school's 287th pupil, on Friday at the Jules Simon primary school, in Saint-Nazaire, western France, while parents are occupying the school to protest against the local academic authorities to close the school's 12th classroom due to only one pupil missing in the school's overall amount of pupils. (FRANK PERRY/AFP/GettyImages)

FRANK PERRY/ap/getty

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A young pupil with his father hands a school bag to a black sheep of Ouessant standing with its mother and named after French Education Minister Vincent Peillon as "Vincent P.", and symbolically registered as the school's 287th pupil, on Friday at the Jules Simon primary school, in Saint-Nazaire, western France, while parents are occupying the school to protest against the local academic authorities to close the school's 12th classroom due to only one pupil missing in the school's overall amount of pupils. (FRANK PERRY/AFP/GettyImages)